Abortion = Art????
Filed under: Icky Icky Poo > Wacky, Tacky & TrueSometimes people use the excuse of "art" in order to get away with craziness!
Aliza Shvarts, a Yale art major, has done something different for her senior art project this year.
The "artist" has documented herself throughout a 9 month process where she artificially inseminated herself and then periodically took abortifacient drugs in order to induce miscarriages.
The exhibit, which will begin next Tuesday, will include video recordings of the forced miscarriages.
WTF?!?!?! Ewwww!!!!!
It will also include preserved samples of the blood during the process.
According to Shvarts, her goal was to "spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body."
Students have expressed shock upon hearing of the exhibit. Rightfully so!
Shvarts insists that her art isn't for shock value. Liar. She says, "I hope it inspires some sort of discourse. Sure, some people will be upset with the message and will not agree with it, but it's not the intention of the piece to scandalize anyone."
As for the "donors", she claims they were not paid for their "services". She also claims to have required them to periodically take tests for STDs, though did not want to disclose the number of sperm donors used.
As for the medical risk related to multiple abortions, Shvarts says she was not worried. She said the abortifacient drugs she took were herbal and legal, and decided she didn't need to consult a doctor.
IDIOT!!!!!
What if she's caused herself serious and permanent damage????
At least this "artist" has one fan. Juan Castillo, another senior art major, said he was intrigued by the beauty of her project. He says, "I really loved the idea of this project, but a lot other people didn't. I think that most people were very resistant to thinking about what the project was really about. [The senior-art-project forum] stopped being a conversation on the work itself."
As for the actual exhibit, Schvarts will feature a large cube hanging from the ceiling. Wrapped around that cube will be hundreds of feet of plastic sheeting which will be lined with her blood from the miscarriages.
Ewwww!!!!
The old blood will be mixed with vaseline to prevent it from drying.
Double EWWWWWW!!!
She will also project the recorded videos of herself, showing the miscarriages she had in her bathtub, onto the sides of the cube.
Similar footage will also be projected onto the walls of the room.
We're starting to get a bit queezy!
This is TOO MUCH!!!!!!
Shvarts adds, "It was a private and personal endeavor, but also a transparent one for the most part. This isn't something I've been hiding." Adding, that she believes "strongly that art should be a medium for politics and ideologies, not just a commodity. I think that I'm creating a project that lives up to the standard of what art is supposed to be."
We're all for a woman's right to choose, but this is abusing that right.
We don't know what to think anymore.
What do U think?
this is sick. she should be charged with murder for intentionally impregnating herself and killing off those babies.
Destroying human life can never be "art".
FiRST!!! THiS iS DiSGUSTiNG!!!
Absolutely disgusting!
I'm all about the right to choose, but this seems like total disregard for human life. Not to mention total disregard for your own internal workings… yuck.
THAT IS ONE OF THE MOST DISTURBING THINGS I HAVE EVER HEARD OF. KILLING A BABY FOR ART?????? THAT DOESNT SOUND LIKE ART THAT SOUNDS LIKE ISSUES.
I SUPRISED ANYONE OULD EVEN ATTEND THIS. THIS WOMAN IS CLEARY INSANE, SHE SHOULD HAVE FUCKING DIED FROM THOSE MISCARRIGES.
THIS IS WHATS IN THE WORLD TODAY???????
MAKES MY STOMACH TURN..
FUCK U LADY!
This woman needs some serious psychological help and should be charged with 1st degree murder! She PURPOSELY impregnated herself only to KILL the babies? It's become a sad sad world we live in. That woman is disgusting and I pity her.
Re: steph –
Totally agree - what is WRONG with this girl! I'm all for pro-choice but this is just disgusting! Although it is causing discorse - she should be mentally evaluated and never be allowed to bear children!
What a sick freak? I seriously doubt it was medically safe what she was doing, but time will tell.
I must say I am completely dismayed about this. Not only is this inhumane and totally disgusting, it's rather sickening too. Abortion is a very touchy subject and I do understand calling attention to it in very interesting ways, albeit, I don't feel this one is a very good way to illustrate that. And she says she's not doing it for shock value? Well, how can she not? Having miscarriages one after the other can be ruining her body and creating lifelong issues she can't even fathom right now. I just feel she should have done something differently for her art project.
Disgusting! I hope she DID do permanent damage to herself, that is what she deserves for playing around with life like that. This isn't an abortion issue, she was not using abortion as it was intended, this is simply in bad taste.
Throw the demon bitch in jail!!!
God will condem her for killing more than just one innocent babies, in this "ART WORK".
I am embarrased to know she lives amongst me.
I am pro-choice, but this is an absolute abuse of choice. I do believe that there will be a special place in hell for this girl who purposely got pregnant several times with the intentions to abort. This is not art…it is CRIMINAL!
THAT SHI* is NOT ART; IT IS MURDER!!!!!
this is so disturbing.
Disgusting, and an absolute slap in the face to those of us that have suffered through a miscarriage. Horrible.
This is by FAR the sickest thing I have ever heard–and it was ON PURPOSE. WTF is wrong with this person? And a professor there approved the project? I think I'm going to be sick.
FUCKING IDIOT…you think shes going to hell?
THIS IS ALL SORTS OF WROOOOOOOOOONG!!!
super gross… she is abusing the right to choose and making all liberals seem crazyyyyy.
thats disgusting.!!!
but i love your site perez!
Disturbing. That's what I think. It should be a very thought out decision to end the progression of life, and to do so in the name of "art", to become pregnant, to create a life…just to end it…I don't even know what to say.
Hideous. And really really sad.
Shvarts adds, "It was a private and personal endeavor…" if so why share it with an audience who may very well need psychiatric intervention after viewing your personal and private "endeavor". what a pretentious whore.
She's crazy!!! I would like to know what her parents think of this…sick bitch!!
Sick. Having an abortion after an "oops" is one thing. I don' agree with it, but at least you can feel bad. But getting pregnant just to have an abortion? SICK
I'm all pro choice and a womans right to choose what to do with their body. However isn't it illegal to abort a pregnancy after the 2nd trimester? Did she abort the 9 month old fetus/baby?
For real? That's just taking it too far….
HORRIBLE !! DEPPESSING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT ON EARTH IS WRONG WITH SOME PEOPLE TODAY??? THERE GOES MY TRANQUIL MORNING IN SAN DIEGO….. THANKs BITCH………
As someone who has, unfortunately, had a miscarriage I am completely disgusted by this exhibit. This "artist" is nothing more than a talentless hack.
this girl is a fucking idiot
she should have her ovarie ripped out -
people like her make me sick
Definitely too much!! She has a serious God-complex!
She needs some therapy…How can she say thats art?
This is so WRONG! I wish someone could abort her for "Art".
fuckin stupid bitch. i'd like2 slit her throat an rip the skanks head off.
funny to me that she/it is trtyin so hard2 be contraversial n edgey but looks so selfish, conceited and PRETENTIOUS
fuckin slag…. fukin CUNT.
Is there a reason for putting this on a celebrity blog site? Since when have you turned moralist? This is revolting but it certainly doesn't belong here.
This girl is beyond sick. Whether you're pro-life or pro-choice, this is downright disgusting.
This is horrendous and disgusting. Such a waste of nine months of having a beautiful creature inside her stomach. I'm pregnant and proud to be pregnant!
How can you "abuse the right" to get an abortion? Isn't that part of the "choice"? Who's to say how many abortions a woman can have? If we put a limit on it, aren't we impeding the right to choose?
She should go to jail. I am for a woman's right to choose…but no to choose over and over and over again. This is rediculous! This actually makes the case for me to illegalize abortion…I had one abortion when I was 17, and now I am the mother of one, and pregnant with my 2nd. The abortion was the hardest and most painful decision I have ever had to make and still effects me to this day. Unbelievable that someone would take advantage of this option for women and use it so gruesomely in the name of art. I hope that she does inflict permanent damage on herself and becomes sterile. One day I have a feeling she will regret this.
I think there's nothing wrong with it. She achieved what she set out to do: create a dialog, get people talking about the issue.
Perez, I can hear your Cuban Catholic sentimentality creeping in: Shut it off and look at the bigger picture!
Someday, this woman is gonna have karma kick her in the ass. Maybe she”ll want kids and can't have any, or something else. Either way, this is just sick. Sick. Sick.
Sick bitch!!
I think you're a stupid asshole. This is artwork. The best artwork pushes boundaries. Clearly you're too fascinated with telling people they look fat than to realize that people expressing themselves does not come through what clothes they wear or what fucking restaurant they eat at.
What a sick, sick bitch. Nice to see this kind of "art" being tolerated at our Ivy League schools. I'm beginning to think you can get a more honest education at a community college.
I think this is absolutely disgusting and in no way should she be allowed to show this. I'm all for a woman's right to choose but this is fucking ridiculous.
As an art major, I've always been of the belief that art should be controversial, but it should also inspire. It should be something you're passionate about, it should be about a message you want to send. It should express how you feel with no words. However, I do not like this project very much, in that, I know that she's doing it to get attention. If she had some kind of personal vendetta that would be one thing, but she's just trying to stir up controversy for the sake of it.
The abortions part seems dangerous and stupid(!!!), but doesn't bother me much as I am pro-choice. I just feel like she's taking advantage of the situation to get her name out there- it's sad, but it's working.
wow, i must begin by saying that i am a firm believer in a woman's right to choose; however, what the fuck is up with this bitch??? purposely getting pregnant then causing miscarriages to plaster your bloody waste on a box??? fucking nuts!!!! this bitch should be pelted with stones
I think its interesting…if you think its gross just dont go see it
well if she's from Yale I'm not surprised, she probably worships the devil..
Good. I hope that her uterus gets so weak she won't be able to get pregnant when she gets older. Asshole.
perfect example of why abortion should not be legal AT ALL
thats disgusting. i hope her insides rot so she can never procreate again.
what the fuck kind of crazy bitch is doing this shit!!!!!!! this is the kind of shit that give prochoice a bad name. that crazy bitch should be fucking banned, or prosecuted or shot. dumb fucking cunt needs to pull her head out of her ass and possibly consider her actions not as a art statement but an abuse of something that is there for women who are in trouble and auctually need to have the right to choose. bitches that this are who are going to have womens rights stripped away! stupid fucking cunt!
She wants to 'spark conversation'? Sounds good. . .I think everyone should send her a personal email telling her exactly what they think of this horrible (a true understatement!) 'project'. Let's see how she likes the 'inspired discourse'.
omg for gods sake thats a human u just killed, more than one omg omg omg it really hurts me to even think about that
How awful. It CAN affect her ability to have children later. But then again, it doesn't sound like she should be reproducing anyway. Get her to a mental hospital. She's truly sick.
what a pychotic bitch…i'm all for prochoice but this is just slap insane and damning. she should go to jail for creating and murdering that many babies.
That is fucking disgusting.
imaigne all the women that wish they could get pregnent and then you see people like this abusing the ability to,
absolutly fucking discusting
what the fuckk is going on in our world?!
disgusting. im about to boot up my lunch and smear it on a wall, thanks perez…
Since when is abusing your body art??! What will be next, "performance art" of a cutter??!
WTF is wrong with our world???!!!
I normally never comment, even though I'm an avid reader, but this is just downright disgusting. It's a call for attention and not a women's right movement. In fact, I feel it does just the opposite. Extreme acts such as this are not productive but instead make women look crazy and she seems like she is just vying for the attention. What purpose does this art exhibit serve? I mean really, come on now!!
Creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it is pretty fucked up. Like, premeditated murder…
This is sooooo fucked up. The bitch should be locked up. I can't believe some one would do something like this and consider it ART!!!!!
WTF?????? This chic is nuts. All I can say is I really….. she obviously doesn't care about all of the health risks and to be honest I hope that she can't get pregnant in the future she doesn't deserve the wonders of motherhood.
This could possibly be the MOST FUCKED UP thing I have ever heard. Even more so than the father and daughter who had a kid. That chick is fucked up man. I love art and can appreciate many forms of it, but this isn't art. This is fucking disgusting. Who the fuck wants to see a chick bleeding out a dead fetus out of her vagina? FUCKING SICK!!! And the dried blood?????? She is going to piss off a lot of people. And she IS TOTALLY abusing the fact that abortion is legal.
bitch is nuts!! Freedom of choice is completely misconstrued in this "ART"
nasty,nasty, nasty is all I can say.
This is so disgusting, on so many levels, I am ill.
How could this possibly be 'ART'?
WTF is wrong with people these days?
BITCHES LIKE THIS ARE GOING TO MAKE ABORTION ILLEGAL ONE DAY!!
I can not comprehend how someone could do something like that.
WHAT THE HELL!!!
This bitch is CRAZY! She has some seriously psycological issues that she needs to figure out! This definately ISN'T art! This is just put insanity!!! Someone needs to slap this bitch! What a fucking douchebag!
This is kinda gross… but I understand where she's coming from. Her idea of turning art into a "medium for ideologies… not just a commodity" is right on. Too often, artists have to surrender their original intentions in order to make their art more commercial… especially if you're not working independently. This art will bring about a discussion… and that is the whole point of art, to be memorable and important.. not just a pretty picture.
Someone should put a white canvas behind her head and a loaded 44 magnum in her mouth and then pull the trigger. I would like to see the artwork from this?
I think she should be convicted of premeditated murder. How horrible so many women cannot even get pregnant and this person does it for shits and giggles? I'm sick.
I am pro-choice, but this feels like murder to me. She is purposefully creating life and then destroying it. I hope she damaged her reproductive organs and can NEVER get pregnant again. It is appalling how frivolously this woman treats the conception of life. I would think women who have had abortions would be most offended by this.
I'm an art history student and i believe that recently horrible exhibitions have been produced under the name of "art" and i believe its becoming rediculous. There is a clear line between what is intentionally intellectual and perhaps controversial and just plain art for the sake of shock value, which takes no real talent. Take for example Guilermo Vargas Habacuc the Costa Rican Artist who tied a starving stray dog in a nicaruguan gallery space and allowed him to starve to death with the smell of food in his nostrils but out of reach. It is sickening to think that this kind of torture was done under the guise of art, no matter what the artists intentions are. I've heard a rumor that this "instillation" is to be repeated and perez i implore you to write a post about this so people can be aware of this torture and can do something about it.
this is just simply appalling!! regardless of your abortion views… this is sick & twisted!
what the hell is wrong with the world!!!???
I'm an extremely open-minded person and almost nothing fazes or disgusts me, and I'm a fan of contemporary art, but this is just absolutely appalling…
Well, there goes a woman's right to choose flying right out the window… what an idiot. Doesn't she understand how much jeopardy she puts herself and others in by doing something so outlandish just to call it "art"?
Being an art student, I would definitely shy away from the idea of calling such body mutilation art… Crazy sounds more like it or even, "in need of some serious mental evaluation"….
Britney Spears ain't got nothing on this bitch!
This is sick…. the most sacred of all humans being is violated in the name of art…! We're talking about killing live fetuses in the name of "Art"…!!!! Did anybody told this shit head the value of life? her parents failed miserable..She should've been aborted… and listen I support the right to chose but this is only comparable to the extermination of Jews. JesusChrist….!! haven't we learned something????????
How could something like this be called "art"? This girl sounds like she has serious psychological problems. What she did was severe self-abuse; I think she needs a long stay in a mental hospital. But anything passes for "art" now. There was a four year old who made splattery "abstract" paintings, and people were buying her crap. There was some "artist" who canned his feces and that was "art". It's all so insane.
This is the sickiest thing! I mean there are people in this world that would die for a child and she kills it for "art"!!! Are you freaking kidding me?! Someone needs to do some "art" to her……I am thinking of a something torturous as she has done to those poor little babies! What a sick freak…some people should never even have a choice to reproduce!!
EWWWWWWWWWWW what is wrong with her!!!!!…somepeople cant have babies and she is just killing hers! also think of all the women who could have benefitted from sperm donors !!!!! she is mentally deranged!!!
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OMG…….saddest thing ive ever read,she is truly evil
This is terrible!!! Im with Perez I totaly belive in a woman's right to choose. However this is just wrong on so many levels. So many women cant have children and this girl just let 9 die. Its not art at all…its wrong. I hope that the abortifacient drugs she took really did screw up her system and when she is ready to be a mother she will not be able to, then she will feel the pain other women who cant have children go though. Wonder if then she will still think her 'art project' was such a great idea. Luv ya Perez keep up the great work!
this has got to be the sickest thing in the world. as a mother and as someone who believes in pro-choice - this woman makes me sick. she obviously is sick in the head and is probably beyond help. god help her. she is going to need it.
I do a fine art degree and in my opinion this story is sick! How can this woman do something so selfish! She doesnt even seem to take into account that she has just destroyed multiple lives in order to produce 'art', which, in my opinion, it isnt.
well I hope she does some permanent damage to her body,she deserves it..,this isn't even art it's just sick,and to do something like this you can't be in your right mind..
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww… one word…. JAILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!
THAT IS WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS! I can try to understand a creative mind. But she knowingly too the lives of those babies! That exhibit does not need to be shown.
I don't even know what to say! This girl has no morals!
stuff like this makes me feel disgusted being associated as a female.
that is sick, how on earth is it 'art' in ANY way?
stuff like this goes too far.
You know, my husband and I have gone through 3 miscarriages right now. Every single one has taken its toll on both of us, physically and emotionally. It DISGUSTS me that there is someone out there taking the matter of being ABLE to even carry a child, multiple ones, so lightly and without HEART!!! It saddens me. . .how can human beings be so cruel??? My heart aches to be a mom . . . this female is only so lucky to have the gift of being able to carry a child. May God forgive her.
Here's her email address: aliza.shvarts@yale.edu
um, i gross my boyfriend out just by reminding him that every time i have my period its the blood of an un born baby…………….i know i have sick humor, but she went to far i think, its not artistic its rather sick to push it that far. i know that when i do things like that to my boyfriend i am deliberatly trying to gross him out and it works, like farting or chasing him with a booger. what is she trying to do?
I have never read anything so disturbing.